The book was suggestd long back by my JAANA....
On the edge of life I have beautiful memories of my relationship. Didn't want to leave anything that my soul regrets so I gott my hands on this book and asked Josephine to read it out to me.
"A wonderful wonderful book. A sports writer looks up his old college professor after hearing of his illness and the relationship between the two that rekindles after years apart. This book should be read by people of all ages. These are the life lessons that Morrie passed down to Mitch Albom, and Mitch was kind enough to share them with the world. This book touched me and made me think about the things that are really important in life. This book is a MUST read. Buy this book for yourself, then pass it on to a person you love: mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, friend or teenager, everyone should read this book. "A true story of the meaning of life put into 192 pages might seem unimaginable, but Mitch Albom does it all. Telling his story about a teacher who changed his life by showing him the true reasons we were put here, and the things we should cherish. Albom starts as an average journalist to find that his favorite college professor is dying. He travels many miles and meets with his old teacher every Tuesday, and Morrie, his old professor teaches him new things about life, and what we should really look for. Mitch realizes how much better his life is with all the help from Morrie, and becomes a better person. Its a heart warming, book that gives us all a lesson in the end.
One reading of the preface and the 1st chapter “ the Curriculum”of the book, Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom is enough to touch that sensitive chord in your heart and move you to want to read the book. While lines like ‘ A funeral was held in lieu of graduation’ and ‘Last class of my old professor’s life had only one student. I was the student,’ bring tears to your eyes, ‘kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit’ brings a wistful smile too. Humor and pathos are finely woven into the fabric of the narration. You cannot miss it.
The “Contents” section does not mention the little details that come between chapters, but like the chorus in a drama they connect the past to the present. The first one brings a live picture of the professor. The author makes an honest observation when he says ‘maybe I didn’t want to forget him. Maybe I didn’t want him to forget me, when he gives his favorite teacher a gift. Makes you wonder ‘ Isn’t this a universal thought?’
Was this his syllabus for life? Does he prescribe this for his students? His reaction when he realized that he was suffering from the slow life taking disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is “How did I get it?” The reader echoes the same- “How did he get it?”
“ALS is like a candle..it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.” The author’s description of the disease, permits even laypersons understand it. Choices are limited when one is afflicted with a fatal ailment but the good part is that choices can be made. “Do I wither up, or do I make the best of my time left?”, the professor had asked himself . This appears in the beginning of the narration but we know the professor well enough. We know the choice he would eventually make. He would make death his final project. He would prove that dying was not synonymous with ‘ useless’.
Everything about the book is wonderfully summed up here: ‘Morrie left a wonderful legacy--- reminding us gently and persistently what is really important in life’-
One reading of the preface and the 1st chapter “ the Curriculum”of the book, Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom is enough to touch that sensitive chord in your heart and move you to want to read the book. While lines like ‘ A funeral was held in lieu of graduation’ and ‘Last class of my old professor’s life had only one student. I was the student,’ bring tears to your eyes, ‘kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit’ brings a wistful smile too. Humor and pathos are finely woven into the fabric of the narration. You cannot miss it.
The “Contents” section does not mention the little details that come between chapters, but like the chorus in a drama they connect the past to the present. The first one brings a live picture of the professor. The author makes an honest observation when he says ‘maybe I didn’t want to forget him. Maybe I didn’t want him to forget me, when he gives his favorite teacher a gift. Makes you wonder ‘ Isn’t this a universal thought?’
Was this his syllabus for life? Does he prescribe this for his students? His reaction when he realized that he was suffering from the slow life taking disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is “How did I get it?” The reader echoes the same- “How did he get it?”
“ALS is like a candle..it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.” The author’s description of the disease, permits even laypersons understand it. Choices are limited when one is afflicted with a fatal ailment but the good part is that choices can be made. “Do I wither up, or do I make the best of my time left?”, the professor had asked himself . This appears in the beginning of the narration but we know the professor well enough. We know the choice he would eventually make. He would make death his final project. He would prove that dying was not synonymous with ‘ useless’.
Everything about the book is wonderfully summed up here: ‘Morrie left a wonderful legacy--- reminding us gently and persistently what is really important in life’-
